meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
WhatCulture Wrestling

NEWS - It’s Over For Brock Lesnar In WWE…

WhatCulture Wrestling

WhatCulture Wrestling

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Brock Lesnar Retiring!

WWE Confirms Three-Hour SmackDowns!

SmackDown Refresh Coming!

John Cena Record-Breaking Night?!


ENJOY!


Follow us on Twitter:

@AndyHMurray

@WhatCultureWWE


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello there, my very good friends, on today's wrestling news. Brock Lesnar could be done with WWE and soon. Three-hour smadowns are back. It's officially been confirmed. WWE has some changes planned for smetown when it comes to going back to three hours. And on top of all of that, surprise, surprise, John Cena's retirement match is already a roaring success. I'm Andy H. Murray. The H today stands for, hey, what the hell are you doing here? It's Saturday. Last video in the living room, hopefully, hopefully. It's gloomy every day here, man, in the UK. It sucks. It's not great. But anyway, let's talk first about Brought Lesnar. This is a story from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter which of course came out yesterday. With Dave Meltzer noting, as part of this, that there is a story going

0:43.5

around that Brought Lesnar is going to retire at WW SummerSlam at 26. That's about eight or nine

0:49.1

months away, of course. It's not long at all. And I'll just read you exactly what Dave said because there's some details here.

0:56.8

So he wrote, there is a story going around that Lesnar will retire at SummerSlam 2026.

1:01.6

I can confirm that date, but did at least a month ago hear that working plans for 2026 would be WWE retirement runs for Lesnar, Stiles and potentially Jericho if he signs.

1:14.6

I mean, let's be honest, you probably don't need B if.

1:18.3

I didn't get the impression that it was locked in for Stiles, who has made it clear it will be...

1:22.9

Sorry, yeah, Dave's sentences are weird. That's what he wrote.

1:26.6

I didn't get the impression it was locked in except for Stiles,

1:29.7

who has made it clear it will be in 2026, but not when.

1:33.3

But the Lesnar name has been talked about,

1:35.0

which is probably where the story came from.

1:37.1

So, yeah, this is an interesting one indeed.

1:40.9

Leson was out of action from WWE for well over a year following his mentioning 44, 45 times in the Janelle Grant lawsuit against W.A.W.E. and Vince McMahon, they brought him back a few months ago to confront John Cena and face him as part of his retirement tour. Naturally, this was a controversial move given his mentioning in that

2:02.4

lawsuit. That was the bone of contention for most people. You're right to talk about that because

2:08.6

it's an important part of where he currently stands in the universe. Since then, he's wrestled

2:14.4

Tina, obviously, and he was in war games as well, on the heel side. So, like, as far as a retirement tour goes, the man is 48 years old. He has been in pro wrestling for well over 20 years. He's done it all. He's headlined WWE countless times. He's been positioned as the top guy in that company countless times. There was very little on the bucket list left for him to take off.

2:36.9

Now obviously for the past like 10 or so years he's primarily been a part-timer, um, coming

2:42.0

in every now and then, particularly in the 2010s when it felt like anytime Vince McMahon

2:47.3

wanted to try and, uh, just kind of revert to type.

2:51.7

He would just bring Bart Leisner back and you'd smash someone.

2:54.5

And that has changed over the years slowly.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WhatCulture Wrestling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WhatCulture Wrestling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.